BitGo Unveils Institutional Gateway for Aave Lending Markets

BitGo has expanded its offerings to the institutional DeFi market with the launch of an institutional gateway. The gateway allows eligible clients to access Aave lending markets through qualified custody wallets, providing a controlled route into decentralized finance for institutions.

The integration is designed to reduce operational friction while maintaining risk management. By connecting DeFi applications with BitGo's custody and wallet infrastructure, Narval's gateway decodes transaction details and adds policy-based controls before a transaction reaches the custody approval workflow.

This addresses one of the biggest challenges in institutional DeFi: blind signing. Standard DeFi activity often requires users to approve complex contract interactions that are difficult to read at the wallet level. The new route allows approved clients to interact with Aave while keeping wallet connectivity, transaction previews, approval flows and monitoring inside a more controlled stack.

The launch is part of a growing trend in institutional adoption of DeFi lending. Other protocols like Morpho are also moving towards onchain credit infrastructure, and exchanges and custodians are increasingly turning DeFi lending into a backend for products that look more familiar to professional users.